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Don’t think that United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is going to sit through your slide deck.”If you want to send a deck, send it to me in advance, and then we’re just going to talk about it, but you’re not going to read slides to me,” Kirby told Semafor’s “CEO Signal” podcast.Kirby is fiercely protective of his schedule. That’s why he caps meetings at four hours per day, though he said he averages less. It means keeping the meetings he does have quick and conversational.”That gives me time to think,” he said. “The further you go in your career, certainly…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brigid Kemmerer, a New York Times bestselling author of young-adult and romantasy novels. Kemmerer, based in Baltimore and now 48 years old, has worked as a full-time author for the past 10 years and has published at least two dozen books. The essay has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve wanted to be a writer since I was 12, when a librarian I knew published her first young-adult novel.Until then, authors might as well have been movie stars. Seeing a real person become one made writing feel like a possible career.I…

Jeff Dean, who resigned as chief scientist from Google last month, is raising again for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop, this time seeking a valuation of around $50 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.It was only a few weeks ago that Discovery Loop was raising $1 billion dollars at around a $10 billion valuation, Business Insider reported. But in this white-hot fundraising market where VCs’ voracious appetite for top AI talent such as Dean is matched only by the enormous expense of building an AI lab, it seems it is never too soon to raise funding again.A…

Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack September 11, 2001 in New York City. Robert Giroux/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Robert Giroux/Getty Images The 9/11 attacks resulted in thousands of deaths — and US response was massive, including new wars and surveillance programs. But what about the trial?More than two decades after the attacks, it’s still stuck in limbo. Why?This episode was produced by Connor Donevan, Michelle Aslam and Karen Zamora, with audio engineering by Hannah Gluvna and Eowyn Fain. Our director is Jonas Adams.It…

Federal tax brackets are projected to rise 3.2% next year, allowing Americans to earn more before their income is taxed at higher rates, according to new estimates from Bloomberg Tax.The IRS adjusts its tax brackets each year for inflation, a step that can provide some financial relief to people whose income is taxed at lower rates. While the agency hasn’t yet announced its new inflation-adjusted tax brackets — an announcement it usually makes in October or November — Bloomberg Tax on Friday issued its forecast for the 2027 tax changes. The analysis is based on the same inflation measure the IRS…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Christos Garkinos, founder of Covet by Christos. It has been edited for length and clarity.I learned from a very young age what success meant: it was money in the till after the lunch rush.My Greek immigrant parents owned a diner in Detroit. Each day, 150 people would flood in for lunch, and my family would fall apart. My mom would be screaming, throwing things at my dad; as a kid, I wondered every day if we would make it through. But two hours later, with the money in the till, we’d…

AI workers with apocalypse fears are facing a troubling, though not unprecedented, career dilemma.Should they quit their jobs to avoid potentially helping make the doomsday scenario they envision a reality? Or, should they drive change for the better from within?It’s a thorny predicament that came into focus this week when Jacob Coxon, a former OpenAI employee, said in an X post that he was resigning from Anthropic because the “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”Soon after, Evan Hubinger, who leads Anthropic’s alignment stress-testing team, essentially backed Coxon, saying he…

Billionaire and member of the famed Koch family Bill Koch tried to offload his massive compound in Aspen for nine figures, but ended up selling it at auction for nearly $100 million below the listing price.The founder of Oxbow Carbon bought the ski-town property in 2007 for $26.5 million and later added 31 acres.The compound hit the market in 2015 with an asking price of $100 million. Koch eventually dropped the price to $80 million the following year. In 2020, he sold the additional 31 acres he added for $14.5 million, but held on to the lodge and the rest…

Canada’s biggest aircraft manufacturer has a larger footprint in the US than many people think.Bombardier — known for making multimillion-dollar private jets for A-list celebrities like Matt Damon and Beyoncé — has been among the targets of President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with Canada. The aerospace sector was not among the president’s latest sweeping tariffs, but he still floated the idea of banning Bombardier from selling in the US.In a Monday Truth Social post, Trump said the planemaker is “treating America like a ‘piggybank'” and must build here if it wants access to the US market: “NO MORE SELLING…

People shop at a Manhattan grocery store on August 13, 2026, in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesThe largest-ever outbreak of cyclosporiasis in the U.S. has ended, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. The foodborne illness sickened 12,833 people in 21 states in recent months in the largest cluster, the CDC said. Health officials have linked that outbreak to shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms in Mexico. It fueled the worst cyclosporiasis season in U.S. history, with 19,595 overall cases of the illness caused by the parasite cyclospora. The U.S. recorded two deaths, both…